If you think theater is boring, you clearly haven’t heard about University of Utah and soon-to-be Actor Training Program graduate Daniel Amsel’s “Purgatory.”
“Purgatory” is nontraditional in nearly every way. It is part of a new medium of theater just beginning to take root. This medium can be seen in “Sonder,” which was recently performed at Eagles Hall. Both are immersive performances, allowing audiences to decide what they see and when, while actors act on.
Amsel’s attempt at an immersive theater is devised from Dante’s “Divine Comedies.”
“The abstract of heaven and hell and our notions and expectations of those places are what drives the drama of the piece,” Amsel explained.